similar to: SYSLINUX 3.20-pre4 pushed out

Testing the following (uncommon) syslinux.cfg with different Syslinux versions allows getting to several observations; some might be of interest to users, and some for the Syslinux developers. syslinux.cfg *** UI menu.c32 DEFAULT help TIMEOUT 30 # ONTIMEOUT help LABEL pwd COM32 pwd.c32 LABEL help MENU HELP help.txt *** 1_ For the TIMEOUT-related directives to behave as expected,

This version has the following changes: - It adds a MEMDISK installation check API (as Murali asked for) - It renames TIMEOUTCMD to ONTIMEOUT. I decided "ontimeout" was the best alternative, especially since I'm going to try to implement Murali's suggested "onerror", and it seemed to work well in combination. As usual,

Peter, Paulo reported some problems with his config files under ISOLINUX and PXELINUX - basically TIMEOUT and TOTALTIMEOUT were broken. The patches I've pushed to the elflink branch fix this and also fix parsing of the ALLOWOPTIONS config directive. The following changes since commit d5e02fb16a11bfdbce1e90a39e6cb5f2ad925389: get_key: Valid key values are positive (2012-04-17 11:25:53

Okay, I have released SYSLINUX 3.00-pre4. This integrates Joel's MBR-writing patch into the Win32 loader; modified to a fair extent by me. God, the Windows API is uglier than hell. This will definitely be the last prerelease for a while, since I'm about to leave for the airport for the holidays. When I come back I plan to release 3.00, so please try it out and yell if there are

Hi, I'm attaching a patch to Syslinux dealing with a handful of issues that were preventing me from using the simple menu interface. Issues covered: * Enable "MENU ONERROR" as a keyword on par with "ONERROR". * Enable hidden menu entries to be used as ontimeout and onerror entries (probably the least estheticalla pleasing part, sorry about that.) * Make global

Correct the order of the parameters for MENU RESOLUTION. Update references. Rewording. Typos. diff U3 /syslinux-6.03/doc/menu.txt /syslinux-6.03-next/doc/menu.txt --- /syslinux-6.03/doc/menu.txt Mon Oct 06 19:27:44 2014 +++ /syslinux-6.03-next/doc/menu.txt Wed Jun 24 01:28:49 2015 @@ -5,35 +5,38 @@ +++ THE ADVANCED MENU SYSTEM +++ The advanced menu system, written by Murali Krishnan

I have just released SYSLINUX 2.09-pre4 with a few changes: a) SYSLINUX should now correctly handle mode changes from within a COMBOOT program. b) Tweaks to the menu system to avoid the "grey text on black" problem. c) A new color scheme for the menu system (Murali, check it out and see if you think it works for you.) ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/

Hi all, I have pushed out Syslinux 3.81-pre4, which is now a release candidate for 3.81. This version includes halt on idle, and so I'm very keen on getting this tested. -hpa

Hi all, I have pushed out a SYSLINUX 3.32-pre4. This version attempts to work around the "missing floppy drive" issue. If you have systems on which MEMDISK doesn't work without a floppy drive, I would appreciate it if you would test this out. -hpa

Yet another test release for the rewrite in progress. This version generalizes the definition of a boot sector, and puts the boot sector code into all the modules, so that a CD-ROM "boot sector" (like WinNT uses) and a PXE NBP should now all be possible to chainload. PLEASE test it out, pretty please... I haven't heard anything from anyone since at least 1.73-pre2.

I have just pushed out SYSLINUX 3.36-pre4; the main difference is a rewritten MBR which can boot from logical partitions. I plan to eventually submit that to be added into (s)fdisk in util-linux. -hpa

Hi all, I have released SYSLINUX 1.75-pre4, which is a release candidate for 1.75. Please pretty please test it out: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ I'm working on some new stuff, basically COMBOOT+an API+32-bit support, which should make doing things like menus and other UI features very easy as separate modules. When that gets finished I'll probably

Hi all, I have just released SYSLINUX 2.03-pre4; this is the same as SYSLINUX 2.03-pre3, except: a) I have -- I hope -- finally fixed the Perl scripts so they work in UTF-8 locales; b) MEMDISK now supports gzip compressed images. For those who have requested it... you should really thank me for the last one. It took quite a bit of work, mostly because I had to move the installer to be a

Yep, -pre4. I've had a massive cleanup urge and have been doing things like actually move common variables into the .inc files where they belong. This also means NASM 0.98.38 is absolutely required, since it uses those new features extensively. This release also contains code to compress label statements in memory, although it's not actually turned on yet. Once turned on it should

I have just pushed out SYSLINUX 3.60-pre4. I have deferred the gPXE integration branch to a later release, since it looks like the gPXE folks are stalled on their end. Highly unfortunately, because it's cool stuff. What I *do* have, however, is support for a small amount of storage in the boot loader -- currently only implemented for EXTLINUX, but the infrastructure is there for all of

Hi all, I have just pushed out SYSLINUX 3.61-pre4, and am declaring it a release candidate. The intent is for 3.61 to be a bugfix-only release, with the one exception that I couldn't resist shaving off an additional few bytes off mbr.bin (36 bytes free now.) If I have missed any bug reports, please holler now. Otherwise I'd like to release 3.61 final in a couple of days. -hpa

I am getting cc1: warnings being treated as errors strspn.c: In function 'strxspn': strspn.c:14:20: error: inlining failed in call to 'set_bit': optimizing for size and code size would grow strspn.c:32:9: error: called from here strspn.c:14:20: error: inlining failed in call to 'set_bit': optimizing for size and code size would grow strspn.c:36:9: error: called from here

Basically, more work on the graphical menu, and actual documentation for it. -hpa

Trying to get at least my backlog of bug fixes out... I'm hoping to do a 4.03 next week. Please help by: a) giving it a whirl; b) letting me know if I have missed any low-risk bugfixes. Gene: I did not include your UI branch in this release, because it made me a bit nervous... poke me on IRC when you have a chance. -hpa

Hi, I have the pre4-Version installed since today morning, and it's working fine so far. I have some quetion about it: How can I create a boot-Picture for the PXE-Stuff with Wi****s-Tools for example Paintshop Pro 5.03 ?? I already tried to load one of the Examples and saving the modified Pic back but it didn't work. I would love to have a blue background with white letters and red